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When your bro is your brother: Friends discover they’re kin after taking 23andMe test

Imagine going through your whole life thinking you’re an only child and then finding out one of your good friends

Blue Telusma / April 19, 2019

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Family Tree DNA, previously blasted for secretly working with the FBI, now openly advertises law enforcement ties

Family Tree DNA is now openly advertising their law enforcement ties and encouraging customers to help them solve crimes.

Megan Sims / March 29, 2019

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High profile arrest led Alabama police to genealogy testing

OZARK, Ala. (AP) — A truck-driving preacher accused of killing two teenage girls from Alabama nearly 20 years ago was

Associated Press / March 19, 2019

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Elizabeth Warren stands by her Cherokee ancestry claims at rally

Sen. Elizabeth Warren stands by her DNA results that show that she does have traces of indigenous blood in her

Jay Scott Smith / January 6, 2019

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Medical experts worry about testing DNA to reunite families

The Trump administration's use of DNA testing to match migrant children separated from their parents is justifiable as a last

Associated Press / July 11, 2018

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Man freed from prison after spending 19 years for a murder he didn’t commit

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who spent 19 years in prison for the killing of a friend

TheGrio Staff / May 18, 2016

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Man wrongly convicted of rape released from prison after nearly 25 years: ‘This is a new beginning’

Darryl Pinkins was convicted of rape in May of 1991, and he served 25 years before being released from prison

TheGrio Staff / April 26, 2016